Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 19:12

12. His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

i. e. My Afflictions which are but God's Instruments and Souldiers marching under his Conduct.

Either 1. cast a Bank or Trench round about me, as an Army doth when they go to besiege a place. Or rather 2. make a Causeway or raised Path, as Pioneers usually do in low and waterish grounds for the march of an Army: God removes all Impediments out of the way, and lays me open to all manner of mischief.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] ▪ 6. 4.